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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Floods & storms
230 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 1 of 12
Furious storms lashed the coast at the week-end. The steamer Sutton Hall, carrying 100 live cattle, which left Capetown yesterday, wirelessed that she was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Great damage was done at Arapito by the sudden flooding of the Karamea River. The water invaded many homes and dairy land was badly silted up,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Experts have reached the conclusion that La Salle and his two companions, whose bodies were found by their wrecked 'plane on the Libyan coast, were forced…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →During a gale which reached a velocity of 91 miles ah hour at Liverpool and 80 at Glasgow and 71 at Southport, the pinnacle was blown off from the west front…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A storm which was scattered in nature broke over the Tweed district on Friday afternoon, falls varying from two points to over an inch. As a result of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A cyclonic wind did considerable damage at the annual carnival arranged by the Frankston branch of the Returned Soldiers' League (Vic.). Just as the day's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Heavy rain which is falling in the north has caused the rivers to rise with alarming rapidity, and it is probable that train traffic will be held up…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flood waters have now covered the rails and bridges in parts of the district and trains are held up at Innisfail. The waters are slowly subsiding, however…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Terrific gales are sweeping the North Island and torrential rain has fallen. Passengers in the express from Wellington yesterday thought they would be blown…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →During a violent storm on Saturday afternoon 90 points of rain fell in less than half an hour. Wind of hurricane force blew over St. Luke's Church of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A 120 miles an hour gale is raging in the English Channel, and steamers are experiencing the roughest passage. At least two vessels have sent out S.O.S…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →During a cyclone at Makogai (Leper island), on Saturday, the Fiji Government motor yacht, Lady Escott, was blown from her anchorage and sank at sea. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A cyclonic storm hit Dorrigo on Saturday. Out on the fringe of the Dorrigo Mountain, farmers' homes and buildings suffered from the wind, which blew with…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The worst tempest in England within living memory, following a succession of severe gales, wrought havoc at sea and on land…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A particularly heavy hail and wind storm swept across the south-eastern fall of the Plateau on Saturday between 12 and 1 o'clock. The full…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →It is just 43 years ago since the big flood of ’87. That flood reached its maximum on Sunday, January 23, according to the "Clarence and Richmond Examiner"…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →During the storm which passed over Grafton yesterday afternoon, one of the telephone operators at the Grafton Exchange, Miss Jessie Conroy, received a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mrs. Trevor Jones, wife of the accountant at the Colonial Sugar Coy., who arrived in Sydney to-day, told a graphic story of a terrific cyclone experienced…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A recent hailstorm, which was experienced in several parts of the Singleton district, did not consist of the usual smooth pellets, for in most places big…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A cyclonic storm of unusual violence visited Copmanhurst on Monday afternoon, and, amongst other damage, took half the roof off Cohen and Ireland's…
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